Posts Tagged ‘resources’
What does Africa have tons of that no one knows how to handle?
(Okay, that’s a little bit off, but these blog titles get tweeted now, so they have to be short and perky.) Land, of course! The African continent is freaking huge. Most of its inhabitants subsistence farm that land. Meanwhile, as oil bubbles up on the western coast and foreign-owned agro-farms crop up in the east [...]
Truth vs. soundbites
I’m only just getting my head wrapped around the ENOUGH project’s new Congo campaign well…enough (damn them for making such bad puns inevitable!) to wade into the blogospherical dissent over it, but this entertaining hypothetical chant from the folks over at CongoResources is a nice riff on the trade-offs advocacy orgs always face between how [...]
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